A stranger combination you may never find

What does Kimya Dawson, a happy quirky folk-style singer-songwriter who was thrust into the spotlight with her songs featuring heavily on the Juno soundtrack...

and Aesop Rock, a Jewish feel-good alternative rapper, have in common?

The only thing I can think of is that they both do more upbeat song stylings. Oh, and they happen to be doing a show together in Brisbane. That's about it really.

But holy heck, this could be a good night of great fun music. I can just imagine the two will play off each other quite well.

October 16, the HiFi.

The Ocarina of Rhyme

I'm generally not a fan of mash ups, that genre of music were different songs are mixed together. Artists like Girl Talk are one of the few exceptions, his amazing ability to form a new song out of so many pieces of other songs is mind boggling. Another one of the few I really like is Illionoize, where producer Tor has mashed up hip-hop songs with Sufjan Stevens. The indie and the hip-hop reallly mixes well together and you can get that album for free at this website.

But now there's a new one I like. And it mixes hip-hop with the music from one of my all time favourite video games: The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time.


It's put together by Team Teamwork, a group of guys that do mash ups, some video game related. I've been trying to buy a Nintendo-64 lately purely so I could play this game again and it was just blind luck that someone linked me to this mash up based off of the game. It features Spank Rock, Jay Z, Dr Dre/Snoop Dogg, Clipse, Aesop Rock, Busta Rhymes and Common amongst others. All set to my favourite songs and sounds from the game.

They put all of their mash ups out for free, so download the whole album here.